Bridge to Wonder: Art as a Gospel of Beauty - Hardcover

Cecilia González-Andrieu

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 160258351X ISBN 13: 9781602583511

Publisher: Baylor University Press, 2012

Synopsis

It is often difficult to describe beauty or even justify attempts to experience something beautiful. Yet if artists--whether painters or poets, actors or musicians, architects or sculptors--teach us anything, it is that the pursuit of beauty is a common feature among all humanity. As Cecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu contends, these varied experiences with artistic beauty are embedded with revelatory and prophetic power that not only affects a single individual but allows for communal formation. Named one of America magazine's most promising young theologians, Gonzalez-Andrieu seeks to engage art in order to reveal its religious significance. Bridge to Wonder proposes a method of theological aesthetics allowing readers to mine the depths of creative beauty to discover variegated theological truths that enable greater communion with each other and the One source of all that is beautiful.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

How beauty is--and creates--theology

About the Author:

Cecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu is Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University where she specializes in theological aesthetics, U.S. Latino theology, and systematic theology. She has written for several publications and received the Best Column Award from the Catholic Press Association for her column, "De Todo Un Poco" in The Tidings.

About this edition

• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 160258351X
• ISBN 13: 9781602583511
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 258